About the Authors

Vivian I. Avelino-Silva

Contributed equally to this work with: Vivian I. Avelino-Silva, Karina T. Miyaji

viviansilva87@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Karina T. Miyaji

Contributed equally to this work with: Vivian I. Avelino-Silva, Karina T. Miyaji

Affiliation Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Peter W. Hunt

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Yong Huang

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Marisol Simoes

Affiliation Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sheila B. Lima

Affiliation Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Marcos S. Freire

Affiliation Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Helio H. Caiaffa-Filho

Affiliations Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, Brazil, Laboratory of Medical Investigation LIM-3, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Marisa A. Hong

Affiliations Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, Brazil, Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Dayane Alves Costa

Affiliation Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Juliana Zanatta C. Dias

Affiliation Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Natalia B. Cerqueira

Affiliation Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Anna Shoko Nishiya

Affiliation Fundação Pro-Sangue Hemocentro de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Ester Cerdeira Sabino

Affiliations Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Fundação Pro-Sangue Hemocentro de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Ana M. Sartori

Affiliation Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Esper G. Kallas

Affiliations Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

MSF, MS and SBL are employees at Bio-manguinhos-FIOCRUZ, the main national manufacturer of yellow fever vaccine in Brazil. All remaining authors declare no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VIAS KTM PWH AMS EGK. Performed the experiments: YH MS SBL MSF HHCF MAH DAC JZCD ASN ECS. Analyzed the data: VIAS PWH EGK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YH MS SBL MSF HHCF MAH DAC JZCD ASN ECS. Wrote the paper: VIAS KTM PWH NBC AMS EGK. Data acquisition and data management: VIAS KTM NBC.